James W. Reid
E373613
James W. Reid was a Canadian-American architect best known for co-designing the iconic Victorian seaside resort Hotel del Coronado in California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James W. Reid canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3343576 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James W. Reid Context triple: [Hotel del Coronado, architect, James W. Reid]
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A.
Robert Reid
Robert Reid was a prominent Scottish architect of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his influential neoclassical public buildings in Edinburgh.
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B.
John Reynolds
John Reynolds is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television series like "Search Party" and "Stranger Things" as well as various independent films.
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C.
Gregory Powell
Gregory Powell is a recurring human roboticist in Isaac Asimov’s Robot stories, known for troubleshooting complex problems involving positronic robots alongside his partner Mike Donovan.
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D.
Andrew W. Houston
Andrew W. Houston is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
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E.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James W. Reid Target entity description: James W. Reid was a Canadian-American architect best known for co-designing the iconic Victorian seaside resort Hotel del Coronado in California.
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A.
Robert Reid
Robert Reid was a prominent Scottish architect of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his influential neoclassical public buildings in Edinburgh.
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B.
John Reynolds
John Reynolds is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television series like "Search Party" and "Stranger Things" as well as various independent films.
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C.
Gregory Powell
Gregory Powell is a recurring human roboticist in Isaac Asimov’s Robot stories, known for troubleshooting complex problems involving positronic robots alongside his partner Mike Donovan.
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D.
Andrew W. Houston
Andrew W. Houston is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
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E.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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hotel ⓘ human ⓘ seaside resort ⓘ |
| architect | James W. Reid self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Victorian architecture ⓘ |
| coDesignerOf | Hotel del Coronado ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre | seaside resort architecture ⓘ |
| location |
Coronado
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surface form:
Coronado, California
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| nationality | Canadian-American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Hotel del Coronado ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
United States of America ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: James W. Reid Description of subject: James W. Reid was a Canadian-American architect best known for co-designing the iconic Victorian seaside resort Hotel del Coronado in California.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hotel del Coronado